Automatic deflector for electric car-heaters.



T. FARMER, In. 6; E. D.1ANSEN. AUTOMATIC DEFLECTOR FOR ELECTRIC CAR HEATERS.

APPUCATION FILED FEB.I.\915. 1 269,589. Patented June 18, 1918.

WITNESSES: INVENTDRS Thomas l'izrmer Jr.

rHoMAsrARMEn; in, ornnw Yon'K, annnnnnsr n. .mnsnn, or. ALBA-NY. EW YORK,- nssrenoasro consomna'rnn GAR-HEATING coMr'ANY, orAtBanY; NEWVYORK, A.

r I CORPORATION-DEWEST VIRGINIA.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, THOMAS FARMER,

J r., and ERNEs'r D. JANsnm'both citizensof the United States, residing, respectively, at New York city, county and" State of New .York,-and Albany, countyof Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Deflectors for Electric Car Heaters, the following being a full, clear, and exact disclosure ofthe one form of our invention I which we at present deem preferable.

For a detailed descrip'tion of the present I form of our invention, reference maybe had to the following"specification. and to the a'c companying drawing forming a part thereof,

Figure 1 is a plan and Figs. 2 and 3 are sections of an electric car 5 heater and deflector therefor arranged according to our invention.

, In an electric heateremployed for railwaycars having cross seats, itis' desirable to direct theheat coming from the heatereither to one side or the other of the seat as the latter is'shifted to face one end or the other of the car.

i For that purpose we provide a tilting deflector on the upper side of the heater which may beset to divert the heat toward the "front or the rear of the heater casing,"according to the position of the particular carseat to which it pertains. In particular we mount this deflector on the heaternot on the car-seatand provide a spring connection from the deflector to the seat mechanism whereby the turning of the seat WlIl also tilt the deflector. n Referring to the drawing, B, B represent two castings placed as" the support under theopposite ends of the seat C. These castings and the. seat thereon'are arranged to be tilted as shown in Fig. 2 when the seat faces one end of thecar, and to be tilted re versely, as shown in Fig. 3, when it faces the opposite end. Since the seat itself with its reversing' mechanism forms no part of my invention, the showing thereof in the draw- H is the electric heater-casing, it being understood that i the heating coils therein are to be of any desired are. Thi h a er AUTOMATIC nnrtncpronronnrncrniccannnarnns.I I i casing isjprovided with brackets h, it that rest on, the angle-bars A and A of the" base sp afl n w: merit Patented June 1 8,519.18.

which supports theseati'Above the heater H is' the deflector D 'in-the form'ofa'redt angular plate pivotedon; its longer'axis in the uprlghts'ix at either end of the heater casing; Being thus pivotedthe deflector plate-can be'turned into the position, an.

tive' tothe heaten shown in Fig. 2, or it can" be turned into the oppositely inclined posltion shown in Fig. 3.] Ineither case the heated airrisingfronrtheheater will be deflected to oneside thereof. InFigL Q the hot air will be deflected to the rearflof seatC which faces to theleft, and'in Fig. 3 itwill stillbe deflected tothe rear of the seat which now faces to the right, the slant of the de- -flector being in the opposite direction.

To operate the deflector D, it is only necessary to provide a yielding wire connection between it and'a shifting point on the seat.

For example, we connect one end of a helical spring S to a short lever-arm R on the axis of the deflector and connect the opposite end of the spring to a wire W which leads to the arched extension T on the adjacent casting B. Thus, as the seat and casting B are shifted from the position of F ig.-2 to the reversed position shown'in Fig. 3, the wire W will drawon lever-arm R of the deflector and tilt it correspondingly. In other words the shiftable'deflector is mechanically a part "of the heater and not apart of the seat mechanism, the wire and spring serving merely as an elastic link to connect the two for operating purposes. By this means the heater'and its deflector can be installed sepas rately from the seat without being involved in the construction and operation of the seatshifting'mechanism, whatever such mecha- T 'nism may be. It will be understood that the deflector may be of any appropriate form, either flat, as shown, or curved, or of other suitable conformation, andthat the operating connection may be of, any different form orattached to any available point of the seat that shifts when theseat is shifted,

though-preferably it will need to be yielding or elastic and of a link form.

What we claim as new and 1. The combination with a heater casing desire to secure adapted to in lose a heater, of arev r le 

